He studied under Ernst Arthur Franz von Hippel (1895–1984), professor of law in the University of Cologne, who became a personal friend and an anthroposophist.

in jurisprudence from the University of Cologne, where he had moved in 1944. Towards the end of World War II, Tomberg received a Ph.D. He then joined the Russian Orthodox Church in the Netherlands but left shortly thereafter, as its leadership turned out to be sympathetic to National Socialism. Tomberg and a Russian friend, the poet-philosopher Nikolai Nikolaevich Bielotsvietov (Nikolaj Belozwetow) (1892–1950), allegedly approached the leader of the Christian Community, Emil Bock (1895–1959) about creating a new ritual focusing on Sophia, but were rebuffed. He was active in Dutch anti-Nazi resistance by hiding allied pilots and parachutists. In 1940, however, he was asked to withdraw from the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands as well, by its chairman Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven (1893–1961), due to his being too controversial. As a result of the controversies, in 1938 the Tombergs were invited to move to Amsterdam. During the 1930s, Tomberg, then in his 30s, published his original occult research in a number of articles and lectures, which made him a controversial figure in Anthroposophical circles. In the early 1930s he married divorcée Maria Belozwetow (née Demski) (died March 1973), a Polish Catholic they had a son, Alexis (Aug– 1975). In 1925, Tomberg joined Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophical Society. He studied languages and comparative religion at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Tomberg worked as a nurse at a hospital, in a pharmacy, on a farm and in the Tallinn Central Post Office. In 1920, Tomberg fled with his family to Tallinn, in newly independent Estonia. He also discovered the works of Rudolf Steiner. In 1917, he was initiated into Hermetic Martinism by G. As an adolescent, Tomberg was drawn to Theosophy and the mystical practices of Eastern Orthodoxy. His parents were Lutheran, the mother was a Russian and the father of Baltic German origin, he was an official in the Tsarist government. Valentin Tomberg was born on Febru(February 14 in the Old Russian Julian calendar) in St. Valentin Tomberg (Febru– February 24, 1973) was an Estonian- Russian Christian mystic, polyglot scholar and hermetic magician.

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